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Medical device sales – sales managers play a pivotal role for sales productivity

Sales Training Connection

Medical device sales and sales managers. The cornerstone for making the adjustment will be the front-line sales manager. The same report showed the sales difference between the top 25% and bottom 25% of sales managers was a stunning 80%. Get serious about sales training and development.

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Did President Obama Do More Damage to the Image of Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

Over the past four years, the national health care package has come to be known as Obamacare. Sales Manager: "Hey Steve, how did you make out on that sales call to Exxon/Mobil?". Sales Manager: "What happened?". Steve: "Oh, not too good.". Steve: "We got Obama'd.".

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“Parasales” Reps – Sales eXchange 209

The Pipeline

One example would be a paramedic “a person who is trained to assist a physician or to give first aid or other health care in the absence of a physician, often as part of a police, rescue, or firefighting squad.” A regular lament I get from managers is that the best presentation a rep had was the one they did for the job.

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Medical device sales – the book of knowledge is expanding

Sales Training Connection

Sales training certainly can address some of these issues through formal sales training programs. Marketing has to help, the IT department needs to get in the game, and the front-line sales managers must coach. Last, medical device sales reps themselves must take personal responsibility for updating their knowledge base.

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Onboarding In Sales: Training + Leadership

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Excellence, Upland Software Sales teams are often one of the most expensive resources within a company, yet the average frontline sales manager spends only 9% of his or her time developing direct report sellers. . Connect with Mat on LinkedIn.

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Training New Medical Device Sales Reps – Getting it Right

Sales Training Connection

Identifying physician expectations – Because sales people often are present during cases and follow up with patients, physicians expect substantial support personalized to them. This means sales people must identify the likes and dislikes of every physician with whom they work. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC. .”

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Why You Can't Motivate Workers | Sales Motivation and Sales Training

The Sales Hunter

This is particularly true in sales, as money has always been the traditional carrot dangling from a string. Enlightened sales managers go beyond money and find the inner drive of each sales person and speak to that, but traditionally it’s been money as the reward and job loss as the punishment. phone sales tips.